THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1022, THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG. == SCA00L wer | THE JUNIOR SPORTS | ONE REEL YARNS Q00D ENOUGH Pep A BOY'S DREAM (NOTB-This one-act play is baled upon an incident in the early life of Abraham Lincoin.) Beene: Interior of the stricken Lincoln cabin. Several plon- eer women are sitting about, sewing carpet rags. Fome children are sit- ting on the floor. One of them is a tall, serious-faced boy wearing out- grows, patched tropSers and a faded rt. SUSAN WALTERS (one of the ploneer women): Speaking of dreams, never tell bad ones before breakfast. You know I dreamed Aunt Mary Kastor was dead, told it before break- fast, and within a week we buried her. I wouldn't tell another bad dream be- fore breakfast for anything. MRS, KEITH: And you're just right. One night I had a dream about drowning in ous about it, Abraham. MRS. GOLLAHER, Oh, let him be, Mrs. Lincoln. He's a cur'ous boy for finding out anything once he gets set on it . MRS. HODGEN: So he is. He's a smart boy, and it doesn't take him long to catch onto anything. (Abe, who is busying himself at the oppo- site mide of the room, does not hear this conversation.) MRS. LINCOLN: Of course I'm kind db pe ; [ i i ty ii oof 44 E i : E 1 i | i of | i : nl I 8 i] BRITISH WHIG BIGGEST LITTLE PAPER IN THE WORLD ml 4 Jew #0 much time learning to read, instead of hunting or hoeing. MES. HODGEN: I guess Abe wasn't made for a hunter, He can't bear to sheot anything or see any animal suf- fer. I never saw the like, AUSTIN GOLLAHER (Impatiently): Ma, tell 'em about that dream had. BEVERAL: the Piles and piles of - Folks was rushing from every- where with picks and shovels, and they kept hauling the yellow stuf past my place all day. And then it seemed to me that President Madison came from Washington City to oversee the job of hauling out the gold. Then (laughing) a loud clap of thunder woke ia tie ails, bacaines you. Zught got t. ABRAHAM: I don't want any gold. The reason I asked you was because I once had a dream that I've been thinking about a heap. MRS. GOLLAHER: Then we'd like to hear your dream, Abe. What was it about? ABRAHAM (he is center of the stage, and he raises his head and looks off dreamily as he speaks slowly): Well, my dream was about making a speech to a lot of people in a big town . . . . (The lights , and when a dim light Real Estate, Bonds and Insurance We pay Cash for Victory's. KINGSTON AGENCIES, Limited J, O, HUTTON. B. G. ROBERTSON Phone 708 67 Clarence Street. Consult us before and save worry after Investing Because of our thirty years of service with unvarying satisfaction to thousands of clients, we know we can serve you well. 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CAMPBELL, Corner of Queen and Wellington Streets. Hayes has returned to her home in New York state after a visit of sev- eral weeks with her elster, Mrs Moore. Mrs. Delmer Willams and Master Percy Willlams spent a few days of last week with relatives in Esocott. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Gra- ham spent Thursday last im Brook- ville. Misses Phyllis and Dorris Ten- !namt were dn Brockville over the week-end guests of their ghster, Mrs. 8. Ferguson. Fred Tennant fs able ing for a epeedy recovery. The box social held at the home of Clifford Morris on Friday evening, was a fairly good success and a very social evening was enjoyed by all who were present. Died Aged Eighty-Nine. Oak Fiate, Feb. 4.--On Monday last one of this place's oldést and most respected residents, in the per- son of Israel Babcock, passed away at the home of his daughter, Mrs. 8. | Dawson, Mountain Grove, whom he i had only gone to visit a week before. He had been ailing but a few days, { when he suffered a slight stroke and {gradually sank until Monday when (he passed away. He was born In Camden township eighty-nine years ago but spent most all his life a !farmer in Hinchinbrook, His always {jolly disposition made him a friend {of both old and young as he chanced {to meet and he will be greatly miss- jed in 'the vicinity, The deepest {sympathy goes out to his aged widow |who 1s over ninety years old. He {leaves a family of five daughters and {two sons, Mrs. Andrew Embury, | Wagarville, Mrs. Moore, Toronto, [Mrs. 8. Dawson, Mountain Grove; Mrs. "A. Knox, Mrs. Maggie Pero of |this place; Seymore, of the North- west and Chester, Echo Lake, as | well ag fifty grand children and for- 'ty-nine great-grandchildren. The 'funeral service was conducted by nar. Buckle, Mountain Grove, and the remains were placed in Parham vault to await interment in the spring in Plecadilly cemetery. ---------------- News From Charléston. + | their taste, dake came up on Sunday "o attend the Hol at Athens. A number from here wera ambng the merry gathering at the home of Mr. and Mrs. D. Heffar- pan, Glen Morris on Friday evening and had the pleasure of renewing old acquaintances with Mrs. Heffnan's gister, Mrs. T. Foster, Brockville, a former resident of Oharleston. A number from here attended the auc- tion sale at E. Foster's, Glen Mor ris, on Wednesday. The farm s'ock sold very well considering the pres- ent very low prices. Charleston was well represented at Mrs. V. 0, Boyle's entertainment at the town hall, Athens, on Wednesday even- ing. (Mr. and Mrs. Minnie Slack. Wilstead, were recent visitors of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Webster. Mrs Poulin, Ottawa, end Miss Hazel Burns, Frankville, have been visit- ing friends at Glen Morris. -~ 7 "WITS" OF HISTORY By Mark Stuyvesant, The Way Eugene Field Made 'The Corner" Famous, .... Bugene Field, the poet and jour- nalist, loved books with an effection like that for a human being. They were his grestest interost in life. Ho regarded them with reverence. As Francis Wilson writes dn his "The Eugene Meld I Knew': "Though he did nut lack in piety, such was the love of a good book that he felt like Charles Lamb that grace before Milton, or grace before Shakespeare or grace before any au- thor whose work enriches the wold was as essential @s grace before meat." Field had a very wvomprehensive iébrary, fillad with all Jkinds and conditions of books. He took great delight in erranging them in the Field Delighted to Pretend Ile Was a Salesmar, most amazing combinations, not only for his own amusement, but to hear his friends laugh. For instance, on the shelves a friend of his found "The Philosophy of Drunkenness wedged next to "Paradise Lost." To find the books he loved and longed tp own, Field haunted the bookshops. He called looking [lor books, being "om the prowl for plun- der." He was an assét to an book- store, and attracted people there to see him and to listen do his imitation of a book salesman. Field actually would pretend that he 'was a sallesman, and then would suggest the most absurd books to customers and wheedle them inbo buying a volume entirely foreign to In one of his own books he wrote to & bookseller of whom he was very fond, although he called him the "robber," the following verse: Believe me, by al! your endear- ing odd charms With which your quaint shop fe provided, . 1 ¢hall honor the "rade by whose help I have made A oollection of freaks that's ~ derided, And, if you believe me, why, then I've to ask, Thet till fortufie beiimes re- adjust me, With dollars and dimes for my yarns and my rhymes, You shall still continue trust me. It was at this same bookshop, jn Chicago that there met the famous group of men known es members of '"The Saints' and Sinners' Corner." It dncluded all the writers, journalists and politicians of note in the midide west. They all came to the "Corner" simply because they loved Eugeno Field. Among the members of the group was Bdmund Clarence Stedman, tne financier and writer. Once Field ed- dressed and mailed a letter 0 him, writing nothing on the envelope but the following verse: There is herein @ plaintive ditty For E. C. Stedman, New York oity. In Broadway, 66, fourth story You'll ind the same fn all his glory, So take this packet to that Sted- man, Or, by St. Hocus! to you're a dead maa, The letter was delivered promptly, and furnished the fun for which it mam, * cs show that few become talented ac- WILTON WEDDINGS ess Movement convention | {| Two Couples Are To Take Up Resi- dence There, Wilton, Feb. 6.--Mnrs. Stuart Sim- mons entertained the members of tha | Ladies' Ald et her home on Wednes- | day afternoon of last week. The! many friends of Miss Marjory Storms | are pleased to hear that she is do- ing wmicaly after her recemt opera- tlon for appendicitis at- Kingston Gen- eral hospital on Tuesday of last week. / Willtazi Amey and bride, formerly Miss Lowise Campbell, King- ston, after a trip to Detroit, Mich., have retumed to Mr. Amey"s home in Wilton. Henry Hutchinson and Mrs. Ches. ter Peters were married on Jan. 24th. After taking a trip to Brighton and other points west, they will reside at Mr. Hutchinson's home in Wilon. Mrs, K. U. Storms and Mrs. By- ron Caton are spending the week-end at Kingston. Mrs. Archie Simmons is spending a few days with her fa- ther, Donald Thompson, Odessa, her mother being called to Watertown, N.Y., to mttend the funeral of her sister, Mrs. John Gardinier. Representation in Senate, Peoterboro, Feb, 9.--The council has petitioned the government to ap point a semator from Peterboro to fill the recently-caused vacancy in the senate. The petition draws attention to the fact Peterboro is the largest business and manufacturing com- munity between Toronto and Ot- tawa, and is the centre of a large ag- reoulturel and dairy district. Clouds pass but the rains remain. ee r---------- Bib-- SO LUMBER We are again on the ground flodr with fresh stocks of Pine, Hemlock and Spruce at prices that mean business, Allan Lumber Co. Phone 1042 Victoria Street TELLERS NAT ROAR ~~ --- SAY IT WITH FLOWERS Flowers are at all times most acceptable, especially to a friend, who may be {ll, either at home or in the hospital. We always have on hand a choice sclection of Azalea, Cycia~ | men, Primroses and Boston Ferns. CUT FLOWERS and FLORAL DESIGNS a Specialty. LAWSON STORE: Corner Wellington and Brock Streets. Phone 770. CONSERVATORIES: 68 Centre Street. Phone 1174J, SU" nl ZOCOR TAERREE il Probably the future because coming events shadows before. 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